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Day
9
Month
June
Year
1887
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Cardinal Gibbons arrlved homo Baturday from his trip to Rome. The Unitod States Treasury has radeemod 7,000,000 trade dollars to dato. Glover's stove-íactory at Vincennes, Ind., was burned Sunday. Loss, $3,000. About $17,000,000 of tho oalled threo per cents, are still held by tho National banks. Jacob Truax, of Eau Claire, Wis., celebrated his ninety-ninth birthday Monday. The New York Prohibition State convention will be held at Syracuse, August L8 and K Violent hail-storms have done immense damage in the Temosvar and Bazias districts in Hungary. : Firo íq the Eagle flour milis at St Louis Monday caused a losa of f50,000; fully coyered by insurance. Mrs. Cignarale, th New York ltalian murderess ot her husband, has been senten eed to be hanged. The Patapsco chemical works, of Balti-; more, made an assigmnent, the liabilities being about $200,000. Charles B. Parcell, manager of the Hall Safe & Lock Conpany at San Francisco, is a defaulter for $60,000. The Scotch yacht, Thistle, won another race at Dover, Eng., Monday, beating the Genesta eleven minutes. The thirty-fifth annual convention of the International Typographical Union began at Buffiflo, N. Y., Monday. The general tenor of spri ng-wheat reports from the Northwest is very favorable since the recent rains. The coinage at the United States mints last month was $4,803,575, ef which $2,900,000 was Standard silver dollars. Women voted at the school-board election at Omaha, Neb., Monday, and the Kepublican candidates were elected. The corner-stone of the Davenport (la.) Masonic Temple, a structure to cost $70,000, was laid Monday af ternoon. At Mount, D. T., a Norweglan woman named Bakken and her two little children perished in their burning cabin. The pressing wants of the drought sufffcrers in Texas havo been supplied, and Mae relief committee has disbandod. Marvin Hughitt was on Thursday elected president of the Chicago & Northwestern road, vice Albert Keep, resigned. The Dominion Senate on Thursday passed a bilí declarlng divorcos obtained in the United States to be invalid in Canada. Houses in Hamburg occupied by 1,600 people have been demolishe 1 to make room for tho canal and harbor improvements. Mrs. Peebles and her infant child were killed by lightning Sunday night while asleep at their home in Stringtown, Tex. The Erotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners at St Paul have organized a general strike of its members throughout the city. Judge Follett, of Grand Rapids, whose sudden disappearance has been reported, proves to be a defaulter to the extent of Í3O,OOO. Rev. Supply Chase, a well-known Baptist preacher ol Michigan, died at Detroit on Friday, at the age of eighty-seven years. Chauncy F. Cleveland, who was Governor of Connecticut from 184'J to 1S44, died at Hampton on Monday, aged eighty-flve years. Queen Victoria, in commemoration of her jubilee, will order the release of all military prisoners conflnod for petty offonses. Chapman's bilí providing for the manufacture of 9chool books by convicts was defeated Thursday in the Illinois Senate- 16 tol. Leopold Patch feil into a vat of boiling water and acid in the Star woolen milis at Wabash, Iud., on Monday, and was cooked to death. A cali has boen extended by the Thirteenth Street Baptist Church ia Washington, D. C, to Kev. George C. Lorimer, of Chicago. Advices recaived at the Marine Hospital Bureau from Key West are to the efflect that the ycllow fever is spreading through the town. The floods in Hungary had on Friday inunda over one hundred thousand acres oí ' .ieat land, and the crops were totally destroyed. A London dispatch says the Crown Prince of Germany is suffering from a cáncer, and that all the talk about his possible recovery is nonsense. Governor Oglesby signed sixteeu bilis Monday, among them the bill for the suppression of bucket-shops and the RocheWinston drainage bill. A water-spout on Sunday at Oberlin, O., deluged the streets, tearinjj houses from their foundations, sweeping avvay bridges and doing other damage. David Gogolin was hanged on Monday at Pembroke, Ont, for killing Mrs. Wherenthal, his tenant, who had refused to pay rent or vacate his house. The bill for the general tax levy for 1887 and 1888 was introduced in the Illinois House Friday. It calis for f4,000,000 for 1887 and f3,500,000 for 18SS. Charles C. Brockway, a noted forger and counterfeiter, who in 1880 was sentenced to eight yearsimprisonmentatProvidence, R. L, for forgery, has been pardoned. By the bursting of a water tank in Watson's paper mili Monday at Erie, Pa., J. F. Sutton and Jolln McNerney were shockingly mutilated. They are not expected to live. A Madrid dispatch says treasure to the value of L95,000,000 has been found in the palace of a defunt Vizier at Rabat, Morocco, and summarily coaflscated by the Sultan. A monument to the Italian soldiers who Jell in the recent battlo of Dogali, Abyssinia, has been unvailed at Rome in the presence of the King and Queen and a vast multitude. The small-pox is raging at various places in Cuba. At Santiago de Cuba 280 cases are known to exist, and it is believed there are at least 100 more that. hmra nnt been reported. Prince Baudonin, of Brussels, attained his majority Saturday, and the coming ol age ol the future King of Belgium was celebrated by tetes and banqueta throughout the country. Albert F. Lang, an absconding bank clerk, charged with stealing $2,500 from the First National Bank of Muskegon, Mieh., two years ago, was captured in Vermont Baturrlay. Bettlers on the land claimed undar the fraudulent Maxwell grant, which has been sustained by the Supreme Court, are organizing to resist the claims of the company holding the graDt. anno.' A recent earthquake near St. Louise, Province of Quebec, dislodged huge rocks irom the mountams, which, rolling into the valley, i üprooted and Binashed large trees, but caused no serious acculects.

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